Punters with an eye for a European election bet will steer clear of Martina Anderson after getting a look at Paddy Power’s latest odds.

The bookies have the Sinn Fein candidate at 1/100 to get a seat in Brussels with her DUP rival Diane Dodds next favourite at 1/20.

A spokesman told the Mirror: “We’re showing the incumbent MEPs as most likely to be elected – Sinn Fein’s very comfortably, DUP’s quite comfortably, but UUP’s is arguably in a bit of a competition for the last seat.

“Jim Allister (TUV) declared his intention to run quite late, but managed to shake up the odds because he should dominate a portion of the Unionist vote. Despite apparently polling relatively poorly, he has attracted a few chunky bets.

“Attwood shortened from 5/1 to 11/4 due to a split of voting amongst the Unionist candidates which could allow the SDLP candidate to edge ahead.”